Research interests
My work deals with the ways in which metaphor helps or hinders cross-cultural communication. I also enjoy looking at figurative language at the intersection of language, image, and sound, and more generally, how people make sense of everyday creativity. Here are some key publications (you can also check my other publications and books):
Advertising & branding
Pérez-Sobrino, Paula (2017) Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising. John Benjamins DOI
Pérez Sobrino, P., Littlemore, J., & Ford, S. (2021). Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press DOI
Creativity
Pérez-Sobrino, Paula; Semino, Elena; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide; Koller, Veronika & Olza, Inés (2022). Acting like a hedgehog in times of pandemic: Metaphorical creativity in the #ReframeCovid collection. Metaphor and Symbol 37:2, 127-139. DOI
Hidalgo-Downing, L., & Pérez-Sobrino, P. (2022). Rest in space, Starman! Creative reframing of death metaphors on David Bowie’s mural in London. Discourse Studies, 24(5), 566-589 DOI
Cross-cultural communication
Littlemore, J., Bolognesi, M., Julich-Warpakowski, N., Leung, C., & Sobrino, P. (2023). Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment: An Exploration of the Factors That Shape Emotion-Colour Associations and Their Variation across Cultures (Elements in Cognitive Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press DOI
Winter B, Pérez-Sobrino P, Brown L (2019) The sound of soft alcohol: Crossmodal associations between interjections and liquor. PLOS ONE 14(8): e0220449 DOI
Research methods
Pérez Sobrino, Paula and Ford, Samantha (2023) What counts as a multimodal metaphor and metonymy? Evolution of inter-rater reliability across rounds of annotation. Language and Cognition, 1-29 DOI
Julich-Warpakowski, N., & Pérez Sobrino, P. (2023) (eds.) Current challenges in metaphor research. Special issue of Metaphor and the Social World 13:1. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company DOI
Music cognition
Pérez Sobrino, Paula (2018) Cognitive modeling and musical creativity. In: Csábi, Z. Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 101-128 DOI
education & work
2023 - present Associate Professor in Modern Languages. Universidad de La Rioja
2019 - 2023 Lecturer in Modern Languages. Universidad de La Rioja
2017-2019 Lecturer in Applied Linguistics. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2015 - 2017 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow (MSCA-EF-2014-EF). European Multimodal Metaphor in Advertising. University of Birmingham
2011 - 2015 PhD in Modern Languages. University of La Rioja (Prize for Best Dissertation 2017)
2010-2011 MA in Secondary Teacher Training, Vocational Training and Languages. University of La Rioja
2009 -2010 MA in Advanced English Studies. University of Salamanca
Contact: paula.perezs@unirioja.es
Filologías Modernas (despacho 110)Facultad de Letras y de la EducaciónUniversidad de La Riojac/ San José de Calasanz, 3326006 Logroño (La Rioja)